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gross domestic product (GDP) in the past three decades and a surge in the saving rate by 11 percentage points from 2000 …
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Transition countries is particularly impressive in this respect: average life satisfaction scores closely mirrored changes in GDP …
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all, on government spending, which, in turn, has an insignificant impact on GDP. The paper discusses some policy …
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There is no significant relationship between the improvement in happiness and the long term rate of growth of GDP per …
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sectional relation of happiness to GDP per capita. The point-of-time comparison leads to the expectation that the same absolute … increase in GDP per capita will have a bigger impact on SWB in a poorer than a richer country. In fact there is no significant … rate of growth in GDP per capita significantly positively associated with a greater improvement in SWB. In the developing …
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of future GDP. Extensive sensitivity analyses indicate that, while differences between model frameworks and alternative …
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higher in countries with greater GDP per capita. The magnitude of the satisfaction-income gradient is roughly the same …
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We construct an endogenous growth model that includes a cultural variable along the dimension of individualism-collectivism. The model predicts that more individualism leads to more innovation because of the social rewards associated with innovation in an individualist culture. This cultural...
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Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic growth. We argue that such an effect is likely,...
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Many scholars have argued that once "basic needs" have been met, higher income is no longer associated with higher in subjective well-being. We assess the validity of this claim in comparisons of both rich and poor countries, and also of rich and poor people within a country. Analyzing multiple...
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